University of Ill in cis at Urbana-Champaign Winter 1985 Alumni NewsleLLer of Chemical Sciences

The Future for Chemical Engineering Chuck Eckert, Head, Department of Chemical Engine~ring Chemical Engineering is maturing as arations, going to more extreme con­ a profession, and it is imperative for ditions or going back into the syn­ us to evaluate dearly our goals and thetic fuel business. In these situa­ opportunities for the next decades. tions, the efficiency of our processes After a growth boom in the 70s, enroll­ will depend very strongly on the ments in chemical engineering cur­ catalysts we can use to create changes, ricula have peaked, both nationally and the materials that will let us work and here at Illinois. We must recog­ under the best possible conditions. nize the changing needs of industry - Microelectronics Fabrication. The and society in order to reshape our translation of the achievements of educational process to the new, solid state physics into useful devices emerging technologies, and see depends on the fabrication process, where the broad training of the chem­ much of which is nothing more than ical engineer can make the greatest a series of problems in mass transfer. conhibutions. This should be re­ Many chemical engineers are already flected both in our curriculum and in getting into the "chip" business and our students' employment patterns. making major contributions. Let me highlight some of the areas - Computers. Optimizing our use of that I think will be important: computers will be crucial in the chem­ Speed Marvel at his retirement, - Biotecllllology. Everybody is talking ical process industry since experimen­ January 1961 about biotechnology, and although it tal research is becoming so expensive. has not produced much yet, sooner Today's sophisticated computers or later it will. Chemical engineers' make it frequently possible to do 'S Marvelous contributions in this area will range meaningful simulations at a fraction from gene-splicing to increased utili­ of the cost, and in a fraction of the "Speed" Marvel stopped for a few zation of natural products as chemical time, of the laboratory or pilot plant days in Urbana last November for the feedstocks. Certainly in the field of experiment. In addition, computer third lecture in the Marvel series, separation technology we will have to aided design (CAD) will certainly be given by renowned scientist Professor learn better methods of extracting val­ a growth area because of the changes Albert Eschenmoser, of the Swiss Fed­ uable biological products from very in our traditional sources of raw mat­ eral Institute of Technology. Dr. Mar­ dilute solutions. Further applications erials and the enormous capital invest­ vel, who has just celebrated his 90th will come in the processing of food ment for new large-scale processes. birthday, was on his way from and pharmaceuticals. CAD methods also provide a great Arizona to consult at DuPont and visit - Separations. With all of the leverage to our ability to evaluate a the University of Pennsylvania. He feedstocks available in the Middle wide variety of complex options and told colleagues "when you can't play East, much of the heavier commodity make wise engineering decisions. anymore, you might as well work." chemical business may move there. If - Environmental Control. The recent Visitors to the lecture included Mar­ America is to maintain a strong pre­ disaster at Bhopal has certainly vel's son, John, now manager of re­ sence in the chemical process indus­ heightened both public and political search at Monsanto Agricultural Prod­ try, we will have to become experts awareness, even fear, of environmen­ ucts Co. in St. Louis, and a friend of in specialty chemicals. The big con­ tal hazards. Chemical engineers have long standing, Dr. Schreiber, Ph.D. tribution chemical engineers will the double challenge in the future not 1935, from Kalamazoo, Michigan. make here is in novel separation pro­ only of maintaining a safe environ­ The Carl Shipp Marvel Lecture in cesses and perhaps processing under ment, but also of communicating re­ Organic Chemistry is supported by extreme conditions. sponsible information about this to the contributions of friends and - Materials and Catalysis. In the fu­ the public. alumni to the C.S. Marvel Fund - ture, we will be treating biological This is certainly not an all-inclusive University of Illinois Foundation. products, doing more involved sep- continued on page 2 COiltilliiCd list, but I think it is sufficient to show We are introducing new courses in tional areas, and above all, we are that we have a lot of work ahead of areas ranging from electrochemical teaching our students how to learn, us. We have to couple our traditional engineering and catalysis, to micro­ so that they may continue to grow training with previews of a variety of electronics, polymers and optimiza­ throughout their careers. new fields, and the faculty of our de­ tion. We are seeking new faculty to partment is striving to do this now. broaden us in some of the non-tradi-

The Faculty ______

AIChE Award to Westwater Fusion Research to Elemental Analysis?

Dr. Alexander Scheeline and co­ available for generating megadeg­ workers at Illinois are turning a ree temperatures. Construction is device originally conceived as a reasonably inexpensive since "lef­ high-temperature source to induce tovers" from the building of fusion thermonuclear reactions into a new research facilities can serve as com­ instrument for elemental chemical ponents for pinch sources. analysis of high melting solids. The Initially, Scheeline found the theta pinch, a magnetically com­ emission data disappointing, since pressed and heated plasma dis­ plasma compression and heating charge, was invented at Los were insufficient to adequately Alamos National Laboratory in sample anything higher-melting 1948. It allowed measurements to than aluminum. A redesigned com­ be made on low pressure plasmas pression coil allowed delivery of a with tern pera tures of millions of de­ greater fraction of the stored electri­ grees. However, if deuterium is cal energy to the plasma and dis­ excluded from the discharge, there charges are now being produced is insufficient energy to allow !my with one kilojoule being dissipated nucJear reaction, and the high tem­ in 100 microseconds. Useful analyt­ peratures that remain can be put to ica1 data on emission from use to vaporize and excite atomic ceramics, stainless steels and other vapor from a variety of materials. "difficult" samples are expected According to Dr. Scheeline, "the shortly. fames Westwater history of emission spectroscopy Research groups at three other indicates that every time a hotter universities (Michigan, Vermont James Westwater has won the 1984 discharge has been designed, and South Carolina) are also study­ Founders Award of the American In­ analytical behavior has improved. ing the use of pinch discharges. All stitute of Chemical Engineers, pre­ Chemical interferences have de­ principal investigators can trace sented at the November meeting of creased and reliability has in­ their lineage to the University of the Society in San Francisco. The creased." From this point of view, IlJinois through the common award recognizes outstanding con­ the use of a theta pinch for chemical 'academic ancestory' of Professor tributions to the profession of chemi­ analysis makes sense, as the theta Emeritus Howard V. Malmstadt. cal engineering and is traditionally pinch is one of the simplest devices given to members whose careers of scholarly achievement have been com­ bined with long and distinguished service in both technical and profes­ phase transitions, and for his defini­ institute, including the Walker Award sional activities. tive studies on boiling heat transfer. and the Conference Award, and is a Dr. Westwater joined the Chemical In 1972, Dr. Westwater won the co­ member of the National Academy of Engineering faculty at Illinois in 1948 veted Max Jacob Award administered Engineering. and was head of the department from by the American Society of Mechani­ 1962-1980. He is renowned for his cal Engineers and the American Insti­ work in the area of heat transfer, spec­ tute of Chemical Engineers. He has ifically the heat effects accompanying earned several other awards from the

2 Harry Drickamer, John Scott Medalist Emeritus Professors Honored ------

Harry Drickmner Invi1z C. Gunsa/us Howard Malmstadt

Harry Drickamer, professor of chemi­ For half a century, Irwin Clyde Gun­ Howard Malmstadt, professor cal engineering, chemistry and salus, professor emeritus at Illinois emeritus of chemistry at the Univer­ physics at the University of Illinois, and one of the nation's leading biolog­ sity of Illinois, was the 1984 recipient was chosen to receive the 1984 City ical scientists, has pioneered research of the ACS Analytical Division Award of Philadelphia John Scott Award, in microbial biochemistry and molecu­ for Excellence in Teaching, sponsored given for exceptional discoveries in lar biology. In October, 1984, in recog­ by the Procter and Gamble Company. science and technology. nition of his work, Gunsalus was One of his former students has said Drickamer was cited for the "de­ awarded an honorary doctor of sci­ that Malmstadt's "enthusiasm, bril­ velopment of high-pressure tuning of ence degree from Indiana University, liance and jovial spirit undoubtedly electronic orbitals," a concept de­ where he held a professorship in bac­ led numerous graduate students to­ veloped through his use of high pres­ teriology from 1947-1950. He was cre­ ward academic life." As a result, al­ sure to study electronic phenomena. dited with "designing innovative ap­ most a third of Malmstadt's 62 Ph.D. The fundamental thesis of Professor proaches to biological experimenta­ graduate students have gone on to Drickamer's research is that high pres­ tion and inspiring students and col­ academic positions at major univer­ sure is a powerful and essential vari­ leagues to pursue research of distin­ sities in the U.S. and Canada. able for understanding electronic guished quality." After joining the Illinois faculty in structure and electronic behavior in Professor Gunsalus, who has lived 1951, Malmstadt worked with com­ condensed systems. His technique of and worked in Urbana since 1950, is mercial companies to develop suitable pressure tuning, now used by re­ known internationally for his studies textual materials and electronic equip­ search groups around the world, has of the mechanisms of chemical and ment for the teaching of electronics to been important to the understanding energy transfer reactions in microor­ scientists anywhere in the world at of a wide variety of scientific prob­ ganisms and on the genetics and low cost. As a result of his efforts, a lems, ranging from the band struchlre transfer of plasmids. course on electronics for scientists is of solids, the spin states of magnetic At the University of Illinois, part of the University of Illinois ions, insulator-conductor transition, "Gunny" has served as professor of graduate program in chemistry. solid state reactivity and mechanisms microbiology and of biochemistry and Since his retirement from the Uni­ of luminescence to the properties of as chairman of the Department of versity of Illinois in 1978, Dr. the interior of the earth and the under­ Biochemistry. He became an emeritus Malmstadt has been vice-president standing of protein denaturation. professor in 1982. for academic affairs at Pacific and Asia In receiving the John Scott Award Christian University in Hawaii. (established in 1816 by a Scottish chemist), Drickamer joins an impres­ sive list of American scientists and in­ joined the Illinois faculty in 1946. He high pressure science. He is a member ventors which includes Marie Curie, holds ten other awards from seven or­ of the National Academy of Engineer­ Thomas Edison, Orville Wright and ganizations, including the Buckley ing, and a fellow of the American John Bardeen. Solid State Physics Prize, the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Drickamer, widely re­ Langmuir Award in Chemical garded as the world's leading high Physics, the Michelson-Morley Award pressure scientist and engineer, and the first P. W. Bridgman Award for

3 "Great and Exciting Years" - Illinois Chemistry in the Twenties

In tlze first of a series of articles by a/um11i, Bill Lycan remembers tlze clremistry professors in the nineteen twmties, and tlze unique relationship he shared witlz tlzem.

l\ AY memories of student days in chemistry at lllinois l V .lSpan the decade of the 1920s. I was an undergraduate from 1920-24 and in the graduate school from 1925-29. Those were the closing years under the leadership of Professor Noyes and the opening years under that of Roger Adams. They were great and exciting years. I remember the excitement of the lectures in freshman chemistry under Professor Hopkins. He was a superb teacher and lecturer with a strong flair for the dramatic­ his lectures were illustrated with demonstration experi­ ments delivered on cue by a funny little man who could have made a great success as an actor. Together, they dispel­ led any idea that chemistry had to be dull. I remember Organic in my second year, the quiet, pedan­ tic but beautifully structured lectures of Professor Noyes Cl1emistry laboratory in the Noyes lmilding, 1920s and the clear, down-to-earth laboratory sessions under Speed Marvel, whom I had the good fortune to come to know early and well. Professor Noyes might easily have fter graduation and a year of teaching at Tennessee, I been dull, but he avoided it by being anecdotal and bringing A returned to Urbana and enrolled in the graduate school. the science into close relationship with life and living. I was a "walk-on" of sorts - that is, I enrolled with no Rodebush, slow of speech but with lots to say, had always assurance of financial support and without discussion of a sneaky little sense of humor that popped up at the most my aspirations with a research adviser. I barged in and unexpected times. And Professor Parr, of distinguished ap­ registered, elected a major in organic chemistry, a first minor pearance, was a truly "professorial" man with a great talent in physical chemistry and a second minor in English litera­ for invention. ture. As far as I know, I was the first, and remain the only It seemed that the whole staff managed to convey a feel­ student in1the history of the graduate school in chemistry ing of interest and concern for all the undergraduate stu­ to elect an English second minor. I signed up that summer dents. Who will forget Duane Englis, friendly, a fine teacher for two courses, "Comparative English Literature" under and a faithful loyalist to Illinois. Or Professor Reedy, home­ Professor Birnbaum, and "Review of Organic Chemistry spun, witty, perceptive and compassionate, a friend for Graduate Students" under Roger Adams. I had a won­ whenever one was needed. Or George Frederick Smith, derful summer. gregarious, outgoing and a model of what can be done I had no more than appeared in the old chemistry build­ solely by individual initiative. ing when Professor Hopkins sought me out and offered me a part-time job for the summer, cleaning up the un­ touched debris of many years of bad housekeeping in re­ I had a full measure of the spirit of fierce pride that search laboratories assigned to him. He had remembered was shared by undergraduate and graduate students me as an undergraduate classmate of his son, Harvey Hop­ alike in chemistry at Illinois in the early twenties. kins. The job was a janitorial assignment involving mainly glorified dish washing. There was not much intellectual chal­ lenge but it paid 40 cents an hour. And then there were two others who were already becom­ In Tennessee, I had made up my mind that I wanted to ing living legends, Professor Rose and Roger Adams. As work for Roger Adams and before the summer's end, with an undergraduate, I never got to know either of them very careful attention to timing, I approached him and asked well. That did not keep me from being fully aware of their him to accept me as a research student. Roger must have contributions to the national reputation of the department. been surprised by my determination, if not by my qualifica­ I had a full measure of the spirit of fierce pride that was tions. I shall never forget the more than two hours we spent shared by undergraduate and graduate students alike in talking about graduate research. With no intimation that chemistry at Illinois in the early twenties. there was anything presumptuous either in my approach There were many other "personalities," Marion Sparks to him or in my "walk-on" registration, Adams talked for for example, librarian par excellence and friend of every quite a long time about alternatives. It was only later that Illinois chemist from 1914-1929; Red Dalton, chemical I realized that he had very probably been quite dose to storekeeper and keeper of departmental secrets {gossip); kicking me out of his office. But he did not, and, in the and Justa Lindgren, a fine chemist and a pipeline to what end, he accepted me and I went out walking on air. was what with Illinois football. Registration in the undergraduate courses that fall (1925)

4 exceeded all expectations. Early in the morning following DuPont and Abbott Laboratories. It was a form of teaching the second day of registration, I received anSOS call asking that was Roger's hallmark as long as time permitted such if I would accept an appointment as a graduate assistant luxury. at $65/month for the school year of 1925-26. Not only was I remember the summer of "preps," Organic Chemicals I going to work for Roger Adams, I was going to eat regu­ Manufacturers, at 40 cents an hour, where I learned a lot larly. 1925 was one of my best years. of laboratory technique. [remember crowded Organic Semi­ nars, usually conducted by Adams, and attended by everyone with even a remote interest in organic. I remember Not only was I going to work for Roger Adams, I was the fear and trembling of preparation for "prelims" and the going to eat regularly. 1925 was one of my best years. blessed relief when they were behind me. I remember the final rush of finishing a thesis and circulating it to get the signature of my committee. And then, suddenly, on a bright day in June, 1929, in Memorial Stadium, we had our degrees shall not try to memorialize my joy in working with and I thought it was over. I was wrong, it wasn't really I Roger for four years in these brief notes. Stanley and over, and here I am after 55 years remembering every mi­ Ann Tarbell, in their book Roger Adams-Scie11tist and States­ nute of it with unadulterated pleasure. mmz, have done a superb job for all of us who are beholden to him. It is mandatory reading not only for Illinois chemists but for chemists everywhere who are interested in the his­ tory of the science. It was my great good fortune to have been working for him when he succeeded to the chairman­ ship and to have watched as he continued to build the great department he had inherited. Roger Adams strengthened the University of Illinois in every aspect of chemical science. In organic, in my time alone, he brought in successively John R. Johnson, Wallace Carrothers, Ralph Shriner and Bob Fuson. Seldom has one short era seen such a succession, giants all of them, coming to join a super giant, Speed Marvel. I am thankful for having had the opportunity of knowing them all well. Doc Carrothers chose me as his graduate assistant in Chemistry 38, Organic Analysis, and we were later to spend many hours and evenings together at DuPont. Bob Fuson shared with me his tastes for reading and gourmet cooking and joined me in frequent visits home where he enjoyed the wit and wisdom of my country doctor father. With Speed Marvel and Ralph Shriner, I shared innumerable fishing and hunting excursions, a feature of extracurricular activity of Illinois chemists for many years. We fished regu­ Bill Lycan and colleagues 011 tire steps of Noyes Lab, Slimmer of larly at the Polywogs near Danville, a series of deep finger 1926. From left to right: bottom row-S. V. Pzmtambeker ('26), lakes left behind by abandoned strip mining operations, D.D. Coffman ('30), J.M.M. Petersort ('27), W.H. Lyca11 ('29), and hunted over a wide area - on property out in the S.C. Ford ('29); middle row - E. W. Bousquet ('29), Ray (?), Dutch Flats, on farms owned by friends of Speed near G.H. Coleman ('28), S.C. Husset; ('30), S.S. Rossander ('30); Fithian, on the Marvel family farm at Waynesville near Lin­ top row - M.E.P. Friedrich ('30), W.M. Stmzletj ('29), C.S. coln, and on land my father owned near Paris. None of us Marvel, R. Merchant ('28), W. W. Moyet (?) except Speed was very good with a gun. Our chief rivalry consisted in avoiding being one of those who, all too fre­ quently, was "skunked" and had to come home with no tall tales to tell. In spite of the diversions, it was not all play and no work in the roaring twenties. We worked long hours, days and evenings and over weekends. We looked forward to Roger's daily rounds which were made without fail except when he was out of town. On Saturdays and Sundays, we could expect longer sessions. It was not all about our own work. It was a running commentary on the state of the science - what they were doing in Madison and Cambridge and in Munich and Zurich. It was reminiscences about Kohler's laboratory at Harvard and accounts of consulting visits at

5 In Memoriam ______The Alumni

Dr. Leonard E. Miller, former chemis­ laboratories. try professor at the University of Il­ From 1956-1964, Dr. Miller was in­ linois, died on July 4, 1984, at his volved in exploratory research of Distinguished Alumni to home in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. He was polymers at the California research be Honored Annually 64. labs of the Standard Oil Company and Dr. Miller, a 1943 Ph. D. graduate of was director of polymer research at jiri Jonas, director of the School of the University of Michigan, came to Lubrizol Corp. in Cleveland, Ohio, Chemical Sciences, has announced Illinois in 1944 as a research associate until 1983. After his retirement, he a new program of awards to recog­ of Roger Adams. He became a chemis­ continued to serve as a consultant and nize the accomplishments of the try instructor in 1946 and served as lecturer and gave two series of lec­ School's alumni. The 'distin­ Adams' administrative assistant from tures on polymer chemistry in India guished alumnus award' will ac­ 1948 to 1951. in 1982 and 1983. knowledge this impressive record Miller was made head of the Dr. Miller was a member of the of achievement which speaks so chemistry department at the Univer­ American Chemica! Society and the highly for the strength of the pro­ sity of North Dakota in 1951, but re­ American Association for the Ad­ grams in chemical sciences at Il­ turned to Illinois the following year vancement of Science. He leaves a linois. In the new awards program, as associate professor and director of wife and four children. five of our graduates will be chosen each year to be honored for their outstanding careers. The first awards will be pre­ sented next May at the School's Commencement ceremonies, to which the awardees will be invited SCS Events ______as special guests. Nominations may be submitted by any interested party on behalf of an alumnus. The 12th Bailar Lecture Flygare Memorial Lecture selection committee will require at least one letter of nomination de­ Harry B. Gray, professor of chemistry The first memorial lecture in honor of scribing the nominee's special at the California Institute of Technol­ the late Willis H. Flygare was given achievements. One or two support­ ogy, was the 12th recipient of the Bai­ by Professor Benjamin Widom in ing letters and a biographical lar Medal, named in honor of John C. Noyes Lab on October 18, 1984. sketch (in the form of a resume or Bailar, Jr., emeritus professor of The lecture 'The Structure of Liqnid curriculum vitne) would be helpful. chemistry at Illinois. Professor Bailar, Surfaces' was attended by faculty, col­ These materials should be addres­ still active in academic and profes­ leagues and friends and by Dr. Fly­ sed to Mrs. Sara Arndt, School of sional affairs, was a member of the gare's wife, Ruth, and their four chil­ Chemical Sciences, 103 Noyes Lab­ faculty from 1928 until his retirement dren. oratory, 505 South Mathews Av­ in 1972. It was on this occasion that Benjamin Widom, chairman of the enue, Urbana, Illinois 61801. To as­ Bailar's former students, friends and Department of Chemistry at Cornell, sure full consideration, they should colleagues established the John and was the winner of the 1982 Irving be received by March 1, 1985. Florence Bailar Fund to support an an­ Langmuir Award in Chemical The selection committee for the nual John C. Bailar, Jr., Medal and Physics. He is a fellow of the Amer­ first group of awardees will consist Lectureship at the University of il­ ican Physical Society, a member of the of faculty in the School. In future linois. National Academy of Sciences, and a years, we hope that the most recent Harry B. Gray is one of Bailar's fellow of the American Academy of awardees will join the faculty in many chemistry grandchildren. Here­ Arts and Sciences. Widom's current each year's selection process. ceived his Ph.D. in 1960 at Northwest­ research centers on thermodynamics There is a genuine hope in the ern University, while working for Fred and statistical mechanics of phase School that this program will be re­ Basolo, a 1943Ph.D. studentofProfes­ equilibria and critical phenomena. ceived enthusiastically and that a sor Bailar. Bill Flygare, who died in 1981, is healthy number of nominations Gray's current research interests are remembered for his contributions to will be made. There is certainlv a in the areas of bioinorganic chemistry the understanding of molecular struc­ record great enough to justify and inorganic photochemistry. He ture and dynamics. them. was the winner of the 1983 American Chemical Society Award for Distin­ guished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry and has pub­ lished 14 books and over 300 research papers. Gray's two lectures were given at SCS in December.

6 Schmitz Elected to National Academy Homecoming for Meredith Sparks Roger A. Schmitz, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of cats Division in Niagara Falls, New Notre Dame, has been elected to the York, where she met and married National Academy of Engineering. It Bill Sparks. The two stayed on at is the highest professional honor that DuPont until Meredith's book on can be conferred on an engineer. 'Sodium' was finished and, in 1934, Schmitz is especially recognized for arrived at the University of Illinois his leadership in research in the field to study under Roger Adams. At of chemical reaction engineering. He that time, Marvel and Adams were taught at the U. of I. Chemical En­ consultants to DuPont and the Uni­ gineering Department for 17 years be­ versity of Illinois had a reputation fore joining Notre Dame in 1979 as second to none for its graduate chairman of the Department of Chem­ teaching in chemistry. ical Engineering. He became dean of Meredith Sparks was possibly his college in 1981. the only woman at Jllinois ever to get a Ph.D. in chemistry in two years. William Sparks was later president of the American Chemi­ Hieftje Wins cal Societv and became internation­ Anachem Award ally reno~ned for his part in the invention of butyl rubber, de­ Meredith Sparks i11 1976 veloped during World War II. Dr. Meredith Sparks continued lt has been 30 years since Meredith to work as a chemist for almost Sparks visited the campus at Ur­ another 20 years, raising a family bana-Champaign, and 50 since she of four (all now in professional earned her Ph.D. degree in organic fields) and, in 1958, earning a law chemistry. An invitation from Il­ degree from Rutgers. The combina­ linois students to the 'Illini Cqm­ tion of her scientific and legal train­ eback Weekend' last November ing has formed the basis for an brought her from her home in Coral enormously successful career in pa­ Gables, Florida, to talk to under­ tent law. Owning her own private graduates about her successhtl practice in Florida, Dr. Sparks career as a lawyer. claims a batting average of nearly Meredith Pleasant Sparks (Ph.D. 1000 in the federal government's ac­ 1936), is one of only three women ceptance of the patents she writes. Gary Hieftje lawyers known to hold a doctoral For the vear 1981-82, she was Pres­ degree in chemistry. She studied as ident oi the National Association a teenager at the Indiana College of Women Lawyers and, a couple Gary Hieftje, Ph.D. '69, chemistry of Music and Fine Arts and gave of years ago, Meredith Sparks had professor at Indiana University, re­ up a promising career as a pianist the honor of moving the admission ceived the Anachem Award at the to major in chemistry at Indiana of her daughter Kathy to practice Conference of the Federation of University. With an M.A. degree, before the United States Supreme Analytical Chemistry and Spectros­ she worked for several years as a Court. copy Societies in Philadelphia last chemist at DuPont's Electrochemi- September. Dr. Hieftje, who studied at Illinois with Dr. Malmstadt, is one of the lead­ ing scientists in atomic spectroscopy Alumni Loyalty Awards in North America. He was cited for research accomplishments in inves­ Two alumni of the Department of years. Mr. David J. Porter, B.S. 1930, tigating the basic mechanism of Chemical Engineering have received who received the award in 1982, pro­ atomic emission, absorption and the University of Illinois Alumni As­ duces a newsletter for the Class of fluorescence spectrometric analysis, sociation Loyalty Awards. Mr. Robert 1930. He has been its editor for 54 and for his subsequent development S. Frye, B.S. 1933, the 1984 recipient years. The newsletters are compila­ of new approaches in atomic methods of the award, has been editing the tions of annual letters sent in by class of analysis. Class of 1933 newsletter for over 50 members.

7 Letters From Overseas Alumni News

The following letters are taken from some School of Chemical Sciences. In fact, So many alumni wrote in response to our of the mail we receive from our many of the 67 members in the Chemistry request for news that not all could be in­ alumni who returned to prestigious posi­ Division of Academia Sinica (the cluded this time. If your 11ame, or a co/­ tiOits in their own co11ntries after graduat­ Chinese Academy of Sciences}, eight lengue's, does not appear in this issue, ing from lllinois. are alumni of the U. of I., including please look for tl1em in the summer '85 three students of Dr. Adams. I hope Alumni Newsletter. After 36 years, I returned to Urbana this fruitful and happy relationship for the first time in April 1980, as a between Chinese students, especially guest in the home of my old friend chemists, and my alma mater, will 1935 Professor Nelson Leonard. I found continue in the future. that the house on West Illinois Street Charles R. Naeser, Ph.D. 1935 {inor­ where I used to take meals and rest Ming-Chien Chiang ganic chemistry), is an emeritus pro­ with my Chinese schoolmates no Ph.D. 1944, University of Illinois fessor of George Washington Univer­ longer remains. The old Noyes Labo­ Professor of Physical Organic Chemis­ sity, where he was a teacher, re­ ratory has been rebuilt and enlarged try searcher and administrator for many and the wooden staircase at the front Member of Academia Sinica years. entrance of the old building, of which Peking, China my dear, great teacher Dr. Roger Adams once talked, has been replaced 1936 by concrete. The chemical laboratories and the library have been enlarged In the fall of 1980, I had the opportu­ Miles E. Hess, B.S. 1936 (chemistry), and modernized, and the relatively nity to return to my alma mater after an expert in all facets of soft drink new Roger Adams Laboratory has a separation of nearly half a century. production, was formerly technical di­ some admirable facilities. The Union I was met by Professor Coates at the rector of Moxie Industry. A past pres­ Building where I used to spend my impressive new Student Union which ident of the Society of Soft Drink leisure time had been enlarged enorm­ symbolizes the great changes in stu­ Technologists, Hess is now retired ously and equipped with many kinds dent activities since my days there. I and acts as an expert witness in law of electronic toys. had lunch with Professor Gutowsky suits. Many things were new to me. Mrs. and other faculty members of the Or­ Leonard took much time showing me ganic Division in an upper story of Daniel H. Goodman, M.Sc. 1936 the museum, art gallery, Performing the tallest building in Champaign (chemistry), became an M.D. in 1941 Arts Center and other places. Some­ which is 21 stories high. In my time, and now works as a specialist physi­ times I could not recognize the direc­ the tallest building was about six cian at the Allergy Asthma Clinic Ltd. tion in which we were going. I stories. But, on the whole, Urbana­ in Phoenix, Arizona. noticed, however, that the bend sec­ Champaign still retains the charac­ tion of the "broadway" behind the teristics of the old college towns. Union Building has been Noyes Laboratory and the "Annex" 1939 straightened, and that the row of are functioning at their full capacities. huge elm trees along the old bend In the library, the portraits of Profes­ Hermand E. Jass, B.S. 1939 (chemis­ road has disappeared. sor Paar and Professor Noyes are still try), acts as an independent consul­ Although so much time has passed, there, with the addition of one of my tant to the pharmaceutical and cosme­ I can never forget my great teacher former teachers, the great Roger tic industries on technical manage­ Roger Adams, my professors, such as Adams. The new laboratory named ment and product development. Until Dr. C.C. Price and Dr. R.C. Fuson, after Adams is splendid and one of 1976, he was the vice president for my good friends, like Nelson the best in the world. It will keep fresh research and development for Carter Leonard, and many other people; nor the memory of this great man's works Products Division of Carter-Wallace, can I forget the place where they and the contributions he made to Inc. He now writes a monthly column helped me to lay the foundation for American chemical education and in­ on regulatory affairs for the Cosmetic my career as a physical organic dustry. Even without this building, and Toiletries magazine. In April of chemist. his students all over the world will 1984, jass delivered a paper on Since I left Urbana in 1944, the Uni­ remember him always with gratitude. "Status and History of Formaldehyde versity and the Chemistry Depart­ in the Cosmetic Industry" at the ACS ment have made tremendous prog­ Hsing Chi-yi National Meeting in St. Louis. ress and the gap in the level of chem­ Ph.D. 1936, University of Illinois ical research work between our two Professor of Chemistry countries has become even wider than Peking University 1941 before. Peking, China Many Chinese students have Gilbert Gavlin, B.S. 1941 (chemical studied at the University of Illinois engineering}, is president of Custom and perhaps more than 20 have ob­ Organics Inc. in Lincolnwood, tained their Ph.D. degrees from the Illinois.

8 1942 of glycogen synthesis. Lamer was an Antibiotics and Antineoplastic assistant professor of biochemistry at Agents.' Suami's major field is the Richard A. Reck, B.S. 1942 (chemis­ Illinois from 1953-1957. total synthesis of biologically active try), director of commercial develop­ compounds. ment at Armak Chemicals, recently received his 139th patent for a new 1953 quaternary ammonium compound. 1961 Reck's earliest U.S. patent was issued Or. Moses Passer, who studied in 1952 for preparation of napthalene­ polymer chemistry as a research as­ Frank Miles, B.S. 1961 (chemistry}, re­ methyol esters. Since then, he has re­ sodate with Professor C.S. Marvel in ceived a Ph.D. in mathematics from ceived 138 additional patents in the 1952-53, is the director of the Educa­ the University of Washington in Seat­ U.S., Canada, Europe, South America tion Division at the American Chem­ tle in 1972. Since then, he has held and Japan. His patents cover a wide ical Society. the position of mathematics professor area of fatty amine chemistry includ­ at California State University, Domin­ ing preparation, process, applications Research associate in chemistry guez Hills, near Los Angeles. and new molecules. with Professor Audrieth in 1953, Dr. Hans Zimmer is a professor of chemis­ try at the University of Cincinnati. He 1962 1946 studies organic and phosphorus or­ ganic synthesis and was recently ap­ Formerly president of Celanese Robert B. Fischer, Ph.D. 1946 (analyti­ pointed to the editorial board of Phos­ Canada, Inc., Ernest H. Drew, Ph.D. cal chemistry), became University Pro­ phorus and Sulfur. 1962 (organic chemistry), was recently vost at Biola University, California, in promoted to president of the Celanese 1979. He was an instructor at Illinois Corporation synthetic fibers unit, the for two years after graduating, then 1954 largest in the Celanese group. He became professor of chemistry at In­ studied at Illinois with Dr. J.C. Mar­ diana University. In 1963, Dr. Fischer Wayne State University chemistry pro­ tin. was made Dean of the School of Sd­ fessor Stanley Kirschner, Ph.D. 1954 ences at California State University at (chemistry), was named one of six na­ Carl F. Abegg, B.S. 1962 {chemical Dominguez Hills, where he worked tional winners of the Chemical Man­ engineering), was recently appointed until1979. He is an emeritus professor ufacturers' Association's Catalyst professor of chemical engineering at of California State. Awards for 1984 which recognize and Rose-Hulrnan Institute of Technology reward superior teachers of chemistry in Terre Haute, Indiana. ln 1982, Minor J. Coon, Ph.D. 1946 and chemical engineering. Dr. (biochemistry), won the Distin­ Kirschner has served, for the last few guished Faculty Lectureship Award in years, as chairman of the Society Com­ 1963 Biomedical Research from the Univer­ mittee on Chemical Education of the sity of Michigan. In 1983, he was American Chemical Society. He has James R. Vanhise, Ph.D. 1963 (physi­ made a member of the National been honored previously by the cal chemistry), teaches chemistry at Academy of Sciences and Victor C. Academy of Sciences, Brazil and the Pacific Union College in Angwein, Vaughan Distinguished University Japan Society for the Promotion of Sci­ Napa Valley, California. Professor of Biological Chemistry at ence. Kirschner was the official U.S. the University of Michigan. In 1984, delegate to the Golden Jubilee of the Coon was awarded a fellowship in the Indian Chemical Society, Calcutta. 1964 American Academy of Arts and Sci­ ences. Georgia-Pacific's resin division has 1957 promoted John P. Petrovich, Ph.D. 1964 (physical-organic chemistry), to 1949 C. W. Schimelpfenig, Ph.D. 1957 (or­ business manager of tall oil and spec­ ganic chemistry), is a professor of ialty chemicals. He joined the com­ At the University of Virginia Medical chemistry at the Dallas BaptistCoHege pany in 1983 after 18 years experience School, Joseph Lamer, M.S. 1949 in Arlington, Texas. in specialty resins, particularly re­ (chemistry), (Ph.D. Washington Uni­ search, technical service and commer­ versity, St. Louis, MO), is head of the cial development. Department of Pharmacology and of 1960 the Diabetes Research and Training Karen Kuhlman, B.S. 1964 {chemis­ Center. He won the Diaz Christobal Tetsuo Suami was a postdoctoral re­ try), is an analytical chemist with the Award from the International Diab­ search associate from 1958 to 1960, Sigma Chemical Co. in St. Louis, Mis­ etes Federation in 1982 for fundamen­ working with Professor Herbert E. souri. tal work on the mechanism of action Carter. Now a professor of organic of insulin and an honorary doctoral chemistry at Keio University, Japan, Brian R. O'Connor, Ph.D. 1964 degree in 1983 from the University of he won the 1983 Award of the Chem­ (chemistry), was recently named di­ Barcelona, Spain, for fundamental ical Society of Japan for a paper on rector of marketing for the DuPont studies on the mechanisms of control 'Synthetic Studies on Aminocyclitol Company's Printing Systems Divi-

9 sian, in the Photosystems and Elec­ Haight's chemistry group in 1967-68. 1973 tronic Products Department. O'Con­ He is now professor of chemistry and nor has been with DuPont since he director of the Institute for Chemical A scientist at Armstrong World Indus­ graduated, working as a research Education at the University of Wiscon­ tries, Ronald S. Lenox, Ph.D. 1973 chemist and holding a variety of man­ sin, Madison. He has served on many (chemistry), has been appointed re­ agerial and professional assignments. ACS committees and co-authored sev­ search unit manager for exploratory eral publications in chemical educa­ research at the Research and Develop­ tion. In 1984, Shakhashiri was ap­ ment Center. Before joining 1965 pointed to the position of assistant di­ Armstrong, Dr. Lenox was an assis­ rector of the National Science Found­ tant professor of chemistry at Wabash Last year, John M. Harlow, B.S. 1965 ation, Directorate for Science and En­ College. (chemical engineering), joined Moore gineering Education. Financial Services as president of the Randy Guschl, Ph.D. 1973 (chemis­ Mortgage Banking Division in Port­ try), was recently promoted to Labora­ land, Oregon. He has had more than 1968 tory Director of DuPont's Sabine River 12 years experience in senior manage­ Laboratory, Orange, Texas. ment with mortgage companies in the Stephen T. Mclin, B.S. 1968 (chemi­ Bay area and the Pacific Northwest. cal engineering}, is now senior vice president for the Bank of America, strategic planning department. 1974 1966 McLin, who is in charge of mergers and acquisitions, helped put Bank of Paul K. Schlesinger, B.S. 1974 A scientist at Monsanto, M.J. America into the discount brokerage (chemistry) {1978 M.D. from the U. of Sabacky, Ph.D. 1966 (organic chemis­ and insurance business. l. College of Medicine in Chicago), is try}, was chosen, in 1981, as one of now an instructor in medicine in the the first three recipients of the com­ Section of Gastroenterology at the pany's Charles A. Thomas and Carroll University of Illinois College of A. Hochwalt Award for outstanding 1969 Medicine. scientific or technical achievement. He was honored for his role in the Alice K. Chen, Ph.D. 1969 (physical Also a 1978 M.D. of the U. of I. Med­ invention of asymmetric phosphine­ chemistry), is a teacher and researcher ical School in Chicago, David B. rhodium catalysts which can produce in clinical chemistry at the University Hyman, B.S. 1974 {chemistry), is an single isomers of amino acids by direct of Pittsburgh. assistant professor of pediatrics (gene­ chemical synthesis. tics) at the State University of New Steve Rothblatt, B.S. 1969 (chemical York at Stony Brook. Carl W. Vermeulen, Ph.D. 1966 engineering). is deputy director of the (biochemistry), is a professor at the U.S. Environmental Protettion College of William and Mary in Will­ Agency's Chicago-based Region V Air iamsburg, Virginia. In 1984, he was Management Division. In 1984, he 1975 awarded the Grace J. Blank prize for was awarded the agency's Bronze teaching microbiology-the first time Medal during ceremonies in Charles A. Berglund, Ph.D. 1975 for ten years that this prize had been Washington, D.C., for his contribu­ (chemistry}, is a researcher at Dow offered. Citation mentioned the in­ tion to an EPA-developed comprehen­ Chemical Company in Midland, tense involvement of his students in sive interpretation of the Clean Air Michigan. his research and the number of under­ Act, the country's blueprint for attain­ graduates appearing as co-authors of ing national clean air goals. published articles. 1977 In a recent move from Indiana to 1967 1970. Pennsylvania, Maurice J. Baillar· geon, Ph.D. 1977 (organic chemistry), Professor of chemistry at the Univer­ Owens Corning Fiberglas Corpora­ became associate team leader of chem­ sity of Vermont, Christopher W. tion has named William A. ical manufacturing at Smith Kline Allen, Ph.D. 1967 (inorganic chemis­ Schneider, B.S. 1970 (chemical en­ Beckman. try), is also acting chairman of the De­ gineering), to the position of plant partment of chemistry at Vermont for manager of the company's facility in the 1984-5 year. He was named a uni­ Conroe, Texas. versity scholar in Physical Sciences in 1978 1982-3. Allen's research activity is di­ vided between main group inorganic C. Ronald Lindberg, M.S. 1972 J. L. Morris, Ph. D. 1978 (analytical and polymer chemistry. (analytical chemistry), (1976 M.D. of chemistry), works in electrochemical the University of Chicago), is an research and development at the Pin­ Bassam Z. Shakhashiri was a post­ ophthalmologist in Westchester, nacle Research Institute in Cupertino, doctoral research associate in Dr. G.P. Illinois. California.

10 1979 product development at Owens­ try), is a graduate student at Berkeley, Corning Fiberglas in Newark, Ohio. California. Jorge R. Barrio, Ph.D. 1979 (chemis­ try), teaches and directs research as Montgomery Alger, Ph.D. 1982 professor of pharmacology and (chemical engineering), works at the 1984 radiological sciences at the UCLA Chemical Engineering branch of the School of Medicine, California. General Electric Corporate Research Suzanne Scarlata, Ph.D. 1984 and Development Center in New . (chemistry and chemical engineer­ Linus H.M. Horcher II, B.S. 1979 York. ing), is a materials research scientist (chemistry) (1983 M.S. of the Univer­ at AT and TTechnologies, New Jersey. sity of Nebraska), is involved with After working as a technical service process research and development at engineer for Mead Paper, Lucy M. Chi-Mi Tai Hayward, Ph.D. 1984 Eli Lilly and Co., IndianapoUs, In­ Mazurek, B.S. 1982 (chemical en­ (inorganic chemistry), has joined En­ diana. gineering), recently became a student gelhard Corporation as research in business administration. chemist, petroleum research group, Specialty Chemicals Division. She is 1981 involved in the research and develop­ 1983 ment of fluid cracking catalysts for the After working since 1981 for Rohm petroleum refining industry. and Haas, Michael R. Ross, Ph.D. Michael K. Antenore, B.S. 1983 1981 (organic chemistry), recently {chemistry), is a chemical salesman moved toM. and T. Chemicals, Inc., for Nalco Chemical Company in Rahway, New jersey, to work in plastic Cedar Rapids, Iowa. additives research. Matthew E. Struve, B.S. 1983 (chemistry), works as a technical sales 1982 representative for the Stepan Co. in Ann Arbor, Michigan. James M. White, Ph.D. 1982 (organic chemistry}, does basic research in Kevin Jones, B.S. 1983 (biochemis-

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